Angra do Heroísmo Museum
Location:
Ladeira de São Francisco
9701-875 Angra do Heroísmo
Phone: (351) 295 213 147/48
Fax: (351) 295 213 137
e-mail: museu.angra.info@azores.gov.pt
site: http://museus.azores.gov.pt
Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Fridays 9.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m
Saturdays and Sundays 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Closed to the public on Mondays and bank holidays.
Entry:
Normal ticket: 2 Euros
Discount tickets: 50% discount for holders of a Cartão Jovem, people aged between 15 and 25, retired people, pensioners, people aged over 65 and teachers of any level of education.
Free entry: Sundays and Municipal holiday, International Museum Day (18th of May), children up to 14, holders of Cartão Interjovem, members of APOM/ICOM, researchers, journalists and tourism professionals (on providing proof of their position), teachers and students (as part of programmed study visits) protectors of the arts and sciences and members of Associations of the Friends of the respective museums, employees of the Regional Board of Culture and dependent services.
Curator:
Presidency of the Azores Regional Government
Regional Board of Culture
The Museum
Created in 1949 the Angra Museum’s first curator was Manuel Coelho Baptista de Lima, who oversaw the future of the museum for three decades. Its first permanent facilities were in the Bettencourt Palace between 1951 and 1969, the year in which it transferred to the present building the S. Francisco Convent.
This building was seriously damaged by an earthquake in 1980. The restructuring and refurbishment works were begun in 1991. After concluding this work and setting up the permanent collection, the museum reopened to the public in the year 2000.
The main characteristic of the Angra Museum’s collection is diversity. Of note are its collections of military history and transport from the 18th and 19th century which compare favourably with other Portuguese museums. Painting, images, ceramics and furniture exhibited here are in a privileged position amongst other regional museums and ethnography which has naturally become representative of other forms of Terceiran culture. There are also a great many less recognised, but no less important, collections, such as the collections of scientific and technical instruments, civic and religious costumes, toys and musical instruments.
Services:
Educational Service
Activities:Guided visits with different routes depending on demand;
Workshops on request from schools;
Activities for groups of elderly people
Contact: dulce.ma.andrade@azores.gov.pt
Documentation centre
There is a documentary archive with conditional access to students and researchers.
Shop
Sale of informative and promotional material.
Available facilities
Available spaces:
Auditorium/bar – Capacity 100 people
Cloister – Capacity 500 people
Price list: Portaria n.º 69/2004 de 12 de Agosto
Form: Despacho n.º 635/2004 de 17 de Agosto
Created in 1949 the Angra Museum’s first curator was Manuel Coelho Baptista de Lima, who oversaw the future of the museum for three decades. Its first permanent facilities were in the Bettencourt Palace between 1951 and 1969, the year in which it transferred to the present building the S. Francisco Convent.
This building was seriously damaged by an earthquake in 1980. The restructuring and refurbishment works were begun in 1991. After concluding this work and setting up the permanent collection, the museum reopened to the public in the year 2000.
The main characteristic of the Angra Museum’s collection is diversity. Of note are its collections of military history and transport from the 18th and 19th century which compare favourably with other Portuguese museums. Painting, images, ceramics and furniture exhibited here are in a privileged position amongst other regional museums and ethnography which has naturally become representative of other forms of Terceiran culture. There are also a great many less recognised, but no less important, collections, such as the collections of scientific and technical instruments, civic and religious costumes, toys and musical instruments.
Services:
Educational Service
Activities:Guided visits with different routes depending on demand;
Workshops on request from schools;
Activities for groups of elderly people
Contact: dulce.ma.andrade@azores.gov.pt
Documentation centre
There is a documentary archive with conditional access to students and researchers.
Shop
Sale of informative and promotional material.
Available facilities
Available spaces:
Auditorium/bar – Capacity 100 people
Cloister – Capacity 500 people
Price list: Portaria n.º 69/2004 de 12 de Agosto
Form: Despacho n.º 635/2004 de 17 de Agosto
Indo-Portuguese Meter
Malabar COSAT. Ebony inlaid with ivory and mother of peral. 17th Century.
Painting
António DaCosta. Oil on Canvas. 1944.
And Steel changed the world… A Schnieder- Canet Battery in the Azores
Artillery Piece. 20th Century.
